In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other...

league; see NBA G League § Assignment Assignment (computer science), a type of modification to a variable Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning...

default, in computer science, refers to the preexisting value of a user-configurable setting that is assigned to a software application, computer program...

"Assignment: Earth" is the twenty-sixth and final episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by...

In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type...

In computer science, an operation, function or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of...

In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name...

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...

formal languages, which are used in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a string is a finite sequence of symbols that are chosen from a set...

In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection of fields, possibly...

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...

approach is called MSR-type algorithms which have been used widely from computer science to control theory. Bitcoin uses proof of work, a difficulty adjustment...

In computer programming, a reference is a value that enables a program to indirectly access a particular datum, such as a variable's value or a record...

In computer programming, a statement is a syntactic unit of an imperative programming language that expresses some action to be carried out. A program...

parameters. Unlike argument in usual mathematical usage, the argument in computer science is the actual input expression passed/supplied to a function, procedure...

initial assignment. Network addresses serve for locating and identifying the nodes by communication protocols such as the Internet Protocol. Computer networks...

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel...

In logic and computer science, specifically automated reasoning, unification is an algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions...

In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to...

. A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...

A renewable assignment is a learning activity that are completed by students of a course that has worth outside of the specific setting of that course...

reductions from 3-satisfiability, the problem of finding a satisfying assignment to a Boolean formula that is a conjunction (Boolean and) of clauses, each...

In computer science, definite assignment analysis is a data-flow analysis used by compilers to conservatively ensure that a variable or location is always...

The assignment problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem. In its most general form, the problem is as follows: The problem instance has...

the term comes from mathematics use, rather than the prior use in computer science. The authors consider this overlap in terminology to be "unfortunate...

1988, where he received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. In 1995, he earned a Master of Science in Management from Troy State University and attended...

Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form", Compiler Construction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7791, Springer Berlin Heidelberg...

solar eclipses. One of the first computers for the American Nautical Almanac was Maria Mitchel. Her work on the assignment was to compute the motion of the...

"On selecting a satisfying truth assignment", Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 163–169, doi:10.1109/SFCS...

I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming...